In designing strategies for unstructured data, IT organizations should avoid strategic dependence on products that try and integrate the infrastructure and end-user function within the same solution. The likelihood of success in the long run remains very limited. Short term tactical adoption of these products is necessary, but the business case should assume a cost of migration to other products within five years.

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Email archiving is going to become the model for archiving of other data. This includes VoIP, videoconferencing, and electronic presence, which are huge network traffic growth drivers in business today. It is probably only a matter of time before courts start asking for this along with email and other transactional business data in discovery motions. Indeed, in the financial industry all calls with clients, including VoIP calls, have to be archived today. The amount of data involved makes email look small in comparison. So it is vital to get email archiving right against the day when the courts start requiring these other data streams as well.

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